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Unit aim

Introduces students to a number of contemporary written texts. Major issues and themes are identified and a number of critical methods are exploited. Particular attention is paid to those issues and themes which can be seen as having special relevance to postcolonial societies. There is an emphasis on Australian writing.

Unit content

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Postcolonial Writing

Week 3: Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Week 4: Space and Place

Week 5: Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance

Week 6: Ghosts, Monsters, and Bodies

Week 8: Toni Morrison's Beloved

Week 9: Intertextuality

Week 10: Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake

Week 11: Gender and Sexuality

Week 12: Michael Cunningham's The Hours

Week 13: Review

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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